2011年1月27日星期四

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We may all be dead before we even know they're here.When it comes to actual technology, we don't even have to consider. Independence Day is and shall remain an object of ridicule for saying that alien ships can be given a virus via a laptop, and that alien ships which can survive a nuclear attack can't put a shield on the one area of their replica Tag Heuer Monaco Watch ships vulnerable to a crop-duster. Any way you slice it, they have interstellar travel and we have iPads. There's not even a contest.The biggest problem with most alien films is the assumption that they'd want anything that might keep us alive for even a second. There's a possiblity they'd want slaves, pack animals or meat, but what are the chances we'd be any good to them at all?

Life is a light dust of carbon between an nitrogen-oxygen vapor and an iron core. Our biosphere would probably be a nuisance to them. It's hard to match complex biology. It's easy and profitable to harvest elements, though, and if they came across space, that very well might be what they were looking for. Perhaps the best, most replica Tag Heuer CW2111.FC6177 Men's Watch realistic, movie that could be made about alien contact is the two hellish hours a small band of survivors of the initial strike would last as they saw the planet ripped apart and broken down under them.The point is, if they don't want us alive, we won't be.

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What's unrealistic is the idea that occupation would occur in the first place. They'd just destroy us, and although it wouldn't be a fun ride, it would make for an interesting few hours of television. Instead, we have to watch good, old-fashioned earthling spunkiness take care of a vastly superior force.One of the primary ways we stop an replica Tag Heuer Unisex Watch alien invasion in movies and television is by finding the alien's one big weakness. There's some hinting at that in Falling Skies. “These things can be hit,” a gruff man with a gun says, “And they can be hit hard.” They have a vulnerability. In Skyline — spoiler alert — it was true love.

The problem with every such One Big Weakness is the audience starts picking apart why the key was that one weakness and no other.In Signs it was water, but did it have to be fresh water? Wasn't it raining anywhere? Snow? And what about the water in the human body? Even though most of the body's water is suspended in cells, there's a lot of moisture left over. What happened to the aliens whose victims cried like a baby and replica Tag Heuer WW2118.FC6216 Watch wet themselves - as I most certainly would if I were being attacked by a clawed chameleon alien. Did those aliens die?And what about the other people in Skyline? Did they not love anyone enough to take over their brain-eating alien hosts? The One Big Weakness is a tiny crack that is meant to end the movie happily but instead bursts it to pieces.

Sure, we're all happy to suspend our disbelief - with a crane if we have to - because laser fights and big alien ships are cool and we like to watch them. But any alien force so advanced that it can cross vast reaches of outer space would make short replica Tag Heuer WW2117.FC6216 Watch work of us. Remember, we're not just talking about technological advancement here. Space travel comes with a whole host of chemical, physical and biological challenges that have to be met.

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The Legend of Zelda prototype [Lost Levels Forums - thanks, B F!]”What would be the necessary ingredients for a Duke Nukem movie? Alien invasions, scantily clad women, cigar smoking and action hero swagger, all of which are on display in fan film The Duke: Fate of Humanity.Directed by Finnish filmmaker Paul J. Helin, The replica Tag Heuer CJF7111.BA0587 Men's Watch Duke: Fate of Humanity is a “nod towards the toughest bad-ass of all time,” according to the short's official Facebook fan page. There's not much dialogue in this slightly-NSFW film that tells the tale of Mr.

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Team Meat's struggles to pare down Super Meat Boy delayed its originally planned November release. The indie developer said it was able to get the file to 50 megabytes then, but 40 megabytes is the WiiWare cap, and the sacrifices made to get the game there left creators Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes unhappy with the replica Rolex 116518-WDL Watch game's quality.”It's mostly music,” McMillen told Kotaku this evening. “We got it close to 40 (MB), but we only have five music tracks, one retro and one boss, and no cutscene music. ... The cut scenes might as well not be there, and if you beat the game, I'm sure you know the final cutscene needs a musical score, to have any impact at all.”McMillen said Team Meat “blindly assumed we could submit a bit higher. ...

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2011年1月16日星期日

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